Australia politics live: Treasurer Jim Chalmers responds to latest inflation figures

Before we cover the treasurer’s press conference, Energy Minister Chris Bowen has accused the Coalition of harvesting people’s data to disseminate “political propaganda” through a website created to allow motorists to report fuel shortages in their area.

During an appearance on Sky News this morning Bowen said the “No Fuel Here” website – launched by the Liberal, National and LNP parties yesterday – served no public use because citizens could not access data submitted to the database, and that it was a cynical ploy by the Coalition.

“This information will not be published, so it’s only for their own use. So you report something, they’re not going to publish. It’s not for community benefit,” Bowen said.

“But then when you look at [it], you put [data] in, it says, ‘by submitting this report, you’re consenting to receiving communications from the Nationals the Liberal Party and the LNP’. This is data harvesting. This is getting people’s email address to send them political propaganda.”